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<< Our Photo Pages >> The Quelm Stone - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in England in Berkshire

Submitted by wiztwas on Monday, 30 August 2004  Page Views: 19338

Natural PlacesSite Name: The Quelm Stone
Country: England County: Berkshire Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Bracknell  Nearest Village: Binfield
Map Ref: SU870708
Latitude: 51.429536N  Longitude: 0.749961W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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SolarMegalith visited on 24th Jan 2011 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Located near the crossing of footpaths, probably large part of the stone is in the ground.

attlebax myf have visited here

The Quelm Stone
The Quelm Stone submitted by wiztwas : Located in North Bracknell on Harvest Ride (the northern distributor road). To find it follow Harvest Ride until you find the Quelm Park Roundabout, the Car Park is about 50 Meters to the East. The Stone is only 50 metres from the carpark and a few metres from a good path, even some one wit a wheelchair could get near enough to see it. This should be a popular destination, but I can find nothi... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Standing Stone in Berkshire.
Located in North Bracknell on Harvest Ride (the northern distributor road).

To find it follow Harvest Ride until you find the Quelm Park Roundabout, the Car Park is about 50 Meters to the East.
The Stone is only 50 metres from the carpark and a few metres from a good path, it should be accessible to wheelchair users.

This should be a popular destination, but I can find nothing written about it, I have contacted the rangers to see if they know any more. The write up on the notice board is interesting.

Size 1460mm x 966mm x 260mm estimated to weigh 1158Kg
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The Quelm Stone
The Quelm Stone submitted by attlebax : Visited in May 2010. The nearby noticeboard says that the stone was probably moved to the area originally by glaciation then used by Iron Age man possibly as part of a stone circle. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Quelm Stone
The Quelm Stone submitted by SolarMegalith : View for the stone and footpath from the east (photo taken on January 2011). (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Quelm Stone
The Quelm Stone submitted by SolarMegalith : Close view at the stone from the west (photo taken on January 2011). (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Quelm Stone
The Quelm Stone submitted by SolarMegalith : The Quelm Stone was an important point since Iron Age (photo taken on January 2011). (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Quelm Stone
The Quelm Stone submitted by SolarMegalith : The Quelm Stone in Bracknell - view from the west (photo taken on January 2011). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: The Quelm Stone by Anonymous on Monday, 27 April 2020
Quelm Lane is about 200mtrs as the crow flies from my house.My family have walked the fields along there for around 30 yrs and had never heard or came across this stone.I find this astonishing.
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Re: The Quelm Stone - Additional information by Anonymous on Sunday, 08 September 2013
They are about to built a road through Larks Hill so perhaps "bennett" could help them relocate it to it's more original location.

Quelm Park Appeal

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Re: The Quelm Stone by bennett on Thursday, 03 January 2013
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My brother and I rolled it there in 1967. It was 50m east of that before.
1967 was a great year for some Rolling Stones. This wasn't one of them
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The Quelm Stone - Additional information by wiztwas on Monday, 06 September 2004
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The Legend of “The Quelm Stone”, on Larks Hill.

By Robin Seward, Voluntary Ranger, Open Space & Countryside Service, B.F.B.C.

This Stone can be found by crossing the Car Park, walking due west along the footpath; “The Quelm Stone” is about 50m on your right.

First, some facts about The Stone:-

It is located at 51 degrees, 25’, 43”, North & 000 degrees, 45’, 01”, West or; at National Grid Reference SU 8697 7087. This Stone lies about 56m above sea level. Sized about 1460mm long, 995mm wide and 260mm thick and is estimated to weigh 1,158kg.

From a geological viewpoint, such a stone is known as a “Heath Stone” and is make up of a dark brown conglomerate formed in the Bagshot Beds, a mixture of sand and pebbles, by a natural cementing process, due to the presence of iron oxides. Larks Hill is part of the Wick Hill complex. This is to the south, towards Bracknell. This hill is made up of a complex interaction of layers of London Clay, about 100m thick, and the Bagshot Beds, on an underlay of Chalk. The Quelm Stone would have been brought to its current position, over 115,000 years ago, by a vast glassier in the Devensian Ice Age, and deposited on the ground when the glassier retreated north, about 14,000 years ago.

Such, broken up (by Man) stones, were used in the middle ages, to build parts of nearby churches – Warfield, Binfield, Winkfield and Wokingham churches have walls still showing examples of its use. Like stones were also taken from the Bagshot area to build Windsor Castle. The Quelm Stone is also similar in nature to the erect Sarsen Stones, to be found on the Berkshire Downs. Many were used as “Parish Boundary Stones” The Quelm Stone marked the old Warfield/Binfield Parish boundary, it lay alongside the old Quelm Lane.

Why did this stone survive in tact? And, what’s its history and, what history has it seen? The narrative below is an account of The Quelm Stone’s past – part fact - part mythology.

The Legend of “The Quelm Stone”:-


It was a Boxing Day - the 26th of December - the day following Christmas Day. Boxing Day, which is also St. Stephen’s Day; the day on which it was, formally in the Middle Ages, the custom to stone a Wren to death, in order to commemorate his martyrdom.

The Man happened to walk past “The Quelm Stone”. He thought he heard a tiny voice call out, “Please don’t kill me - I am only seeking sanctuary on my special stone”.

Startled -The Man looked round to see a tiny bird, a Wren, standing on the Stone.

“Wrens just don’t talk!” - The Man thought.

“This one does!” said the Wren, “and, I can even understand what you are thinking! My name is Trog, I come from the tribe of Troglodytes, and I am, THE WARFIELD WREN”. (The Saxon for a “Wren” was, a “War” – thus WARFIELD or Wrens’ Field)

The Man sat on the Quelm Stone, and Trog, who was now sitting on the man’s shoulder, told him how The Ice Tyrant, Niven had brought the stone to this place, and how Niven had had a battle with The Sun God, Titan. (see above)

That Niven was forced to retire to his arctic home, and, how he vowed that, should the stone be moved, then, “A gift of communication would exist between a Bird, whose tail was shaped like the stone, and Man, should they meet at the stone on a special day”.

Trog told how this prophesy had come to pass, in about 750BC, when a group of Iron Age men stood The Stone on its end, to tell them the longest day of the year had arrived (the summer solstice, the 21st June).

(An Iron Age Farm was located just north-east of the Warfield Roundabout. The Stone lines up (from the entrance to their communal living hut, which was 11m in diameter), with the setting sun on this date, and, also with a further Iron Age settlement, which was situated on Cabbage Hill, to the

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